Japanese honeybees have developed a fairly effective defense against the Asian hornets. Perhaps the next shipping container should contain a few of those as well (tongue firmly in cheek). African Killer bees were intentionally imported from Africa into South America in an effort to create a more efficient hybrid honey producer. Didn't quite work the way the scientists envisioned. Sounds like Monsanto's work, but I don't think it was in this case. There have been several instances in which Africanized bees have been imported to North America via shipping containers. These things happen. As a result, there's a fairly extensive biological specialization in invasive species, most of which are where they are now because of human activity. Does this mean humans should not be active? Not a very practical outcome at this point. Interesting discussion, so far.
Barry Stennett On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Christoph Reuss wrote: > Darryl wrote: >> Perhaps this is the same "Free Trader" who sent the Gypsy Moth or >> perhaps the "Free Traitors" should send to France the African Killer >> Bees as a front line defense? > > Moths have an entirely different way of spreading than Hornets, and > the African Killer Bees are migrating from South America northwards, > they weren't shipped to a spot in NAm. > > >> Unfortunately, humans drag a lot of crap around with them wherever >> they >> go (and in whatever age they may have traveled in). > > Then why wasn't the Asian Hornet also imported to America, which is > importing > even more from China? > > >> I wonder though, do the Asian hornets take on the larger Bombus >> species? > > Would this matter to honeybees? > > Chris > > > > ~ > ~ > ~ > ~ > ~ > ~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the > keyword > "igve". > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
